When I say this I don't mean like G'n'R (they are amazing in my opinion though, before anyone gets on my back!) but like heavy metal i.e Slipknot, Metallica, Slayer, Ozzy's later stuff, BLS..etc or hard rock like Rob Zombie and Stone Sour?
Just kinda curious

I have a wide range of music I am into and it depends on my mood what I listen to. Some of the artist you listed I am into and some I am not. The only heavy music I pull right off is the bands that have a vocalist that sounds like he swallowed the microphone and is trying to take a dump at the same time, I think you know what I mean.

I know exactly what you mean straycat!!

I've been a Metallica fan since 1984, they opened up my world to the heavy bands like Megadeth and Motorhead.

+1

I love all kinds of music but that is probably my go to genre. I like Metallica's old stuff, thought they took a dive with the Black Album and it was downhill ever since. Especially "Load"... the name said it all for me. Maiden is my favorite metal band and just about my favorite band period next to Floyd and Rush. I also love Arch Enemy, they might be guilty of the "swallow the mic" vocals but they are TIGHT and in my opinion more of a progressive death metal band. Check them out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrSqeS8Ya-E

that's a girl singing. I really like the way she does that style. Another thing i like about Arch Enemy is where many bands like that would use Eventide H3000 to harmonize the vocals for the "posessed" FX, they do it with actual real vocal doubling. Not everyone's cup of tea but i really like them.

Oh, yes ... commonly refered to as "Cookie Monster" vocals. To me, this is a cheap cop out used a placeholder for making actual music. I love heavy music ... which means you need to actually sing ...

_________________
Laughing out loud with fear and hope, I have a desperate plan ...

Hell yeah!
The harder the better. Everthing from 80's 'hair' metal to Death Metal.

_________________
Dean, Epiphone and Fender guitars

Not for me, I dig some Metallica on occasion, but not much more than that.

_________________
Blues with a feeling.

GUILD GUITARS: MADE TO BE PLAYED!

I find the hard rock you're talking about, hard listening, that is, the stuff that straycat was talking about. I'm a classic heavy rock man personally.

_________________

I like heavy music---I love it when a fat guy sings!

_________________
Good Vibes To Y'all!



Screamin' Armadillos
Texas Roadhouse Music
Guitar/Slide Guitar/Harp/Vocals

+1

Heavy music is great but just say NO to "cookie monster vocals". Unintelligible is not hard core, it's just noise.

_________________
"Life is like eating jalapenos. What you do today may burn your arse tomorrow"

Other than some vintage LZ, 'personally could not make any sense of "heavy music.".

"Art" and "individual expression" perhaps, but in the abstract equivalent of photographing or sculpting a turd and putting it on display. Or in the "musical" instance, blasting thousands of watts of screaming, distorted decibels, insuring tinitus treatments and hearing aid production in the future.

A Gibson ad of a man walking onstage with a flat top guitar summed it up for this picker...

..."no distortion to cover your a**."

Used to listen to 100% heavy music. It's slit up a lot more now, but I still like it. Modern stuff, not really anything 80's. A few band from the 90's, but mostly new music. Some of it was the stuff with cookie monster vocals that adults hate. Others weren't, and I liked that too. It just depends on the band.

_________________
Website: http://www.rebeccalaird.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebeccalairdmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/beckslaird
Instagram: http://instagram.com/beckslaird

I love all music but really like heavy music. I will say that any guy that says they don't like heavy music is a limp-wristed-girly man or needs testosterone replacement therapy.